Paul A Vixie wrote:
[ this came from http://www.new.net/about_us_press.tp and appears not to be a joke. its operational impact will not be felt today, but if it's even moderately popular before it dies, operational impact WILL be felt. i'm quite surprised by some of the folks they list as their partners. --vix ]
This reminds me of the days of Eugene Kashpureff. Ironically, while I can ping www.new.net - notice what it resolves to : 64 bytes from mm4ee.vegas.idealab.com (64.208.49.141): icmp_seq=0 ttl=247 time=72.345 msec I cannot get the web page. Also, look at
The Technology
New.net is able to provide use of these new, top-level domains through innovative, patent-pending technology that allows the New.net names to live within the existing Internet domain name system. Whether on an individual browser level via the New.net plug-in, or through software resident on a participating ISP's server, requests to display Web pages with New.net domain names are resolved by appending the additional extension .new.net onto the address. As a result, requests are automatically routed to New.net's DNS servers to determine the correct IP address of the computer hosting the Web page. New.net has partnered with UltraDNS, one of the Internet's leading DNS infrastructure services companies, to provide scalable, global DNS services.
So, in other words, if ICANN approves any of the same top level domains, DNS for those domains will be totally hosed. Also, note that they did not give in their PR AN EXAMPLE for the rest of us to try. Marshall Eubanks
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New.net Expands Internet Naming With Launch of 20 New Top-Level Domain Names <snip>
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